Plumbing-fixture for bath-tubs.



M. M. BERGER.

PLUMBING FIXTURE FOR BATH TUBS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26. 1918.

Patented Jan. 7, 1919.

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MORIS M. BERGER, OF CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO.

PLUMBING FIXTURE FOR BATH-TUBS.

Application filed March 26; 1918. Serial No. 224,851;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Moms M. BERGER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at of a bath-tub and has thelower elbow v Specification of Letters Patent.

adapted to communicate at its upper end with the overflow-opening insaid Wall and adapted to communicate at its lower end with a waste-pipeand has the upper elbow adapted to be placed in open relation at itsupper end with a water-supply pipe or fixture and has the lower end ofthe upper elbow screw-threaded internally for receiving thecorrespondingly externally screwthreaded water-receiving end of a spoutadapted to extend through said wall and to discharge into the tub.

One object of this invention is to produce a combined supply andoverflow bath-tub plumbing fixture which can be manufactured withfacility and'is readily applied to and detachable from the tub.

Another objeet is to produce a fixture of; the character indicated whichis compact,

simple and durable in construction, and not liable to get out of order.

Another object is to have the hereinbefore mentioned casting suitablefor the reception, at a point between the passageways formed by theelbows, of a screw or bolt employed in the attachment to said casting ofa strainer-forming plate applied to the inner side of the hereinbeforementioned wall and to utilize the aforesaid spout in holding said platein proper position and to utilizesaid spout in supporting said castingfrom said wall.

\Vith these objects in View, and to attain: any other object hereinafterappearing, this invention consists in certain features of construction,and combinations and relative arrangement of the parts, hereinafterdescribed in th1s ;specificat1on,-pointed out in Patented-Jan. 7,1919.

the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. 7

In said drawings, Figure .1 is a sectional View of a. portion of aloath-tub provided. with a combined supply and overflow fix-' vtureembodying my invention and provided with a strainer connected to saidfixture. Fig. 2 is'a vertical section taken along the line 2-2, Fig. 1,looking inwardly. ,Fig. 3 is a'vertical section taken along the line 33,Fig. 1, looking outwardly. Fig. 4 is an elevation taken along the line4-4,

Fig. 1. Q I V Referring to said drawings, A indicates a portion of thefoot end wall of a bath tub, and said wall (see Figs. 1 and 5) isprovided with an opening 5 at which water is adapted to overflow fromthe tub.. The opening 5 extends laterally through the wall A, and saidwall is provided above said opening with a hole 6 which is spaced fromsaid opening and extends laterally through said wall. At the outer sideof the wall'A of the bath-tub and adjacent the hole 6 andoverflow-opening 5 in said wall is applied a combined supply andoverflow fixture embodying meritorious features ofmy invention and shownas comprising a body B which is in the form of a circular cast metalplate shown" abutting at onev face thereof against said side of saidwall and extending around said overflow-opening and around the hole 6.Preferably the overflow-opening 5 is semi-circular and widest at the topthereof, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 4. The body B has its lowerportion provided with an outwardly and downwardly project ng tubularmember 7 which is integral with said body and in the form of averticallv arranged elb w and (see Fig. 1) has its lower end-portionscrew-threaded internally and adapted to be connected to a waste-pipe(not shown). The elbow' or tubular member 7 forms a passageway 8 whichextends endwise through said memher, and is shown in Fig. 1 ascommunicating at the inner face of said body with the overflow-openlng 5and is employed 1n establishing. communication. between said opening andthe aforesaid waste-pipe and in conducting off water from said opening.The elbow or tubular mem er? is gradually enlarged in width upwardly, asat 9, Figs. 3 and 4, toward the top thereof so as to permit theformation of a passageway 8 which substantiallycorresponds in dimensionsand form at its water-receiving end,that is, at the inner face of thebody B,with the dimensions and form of th'e-overflow-open-- ing 5 and soas to permit said passageway to properly register at said "end with'saidopening. The elbow or tubular member '7 ,iis pro'vided externallyof thetop of its-inner and upper end-portion with alug which is arrangedcentrally"'between the sides of said tendsportion of ,said elbowortubular 'member and is provided with a horizontally earrangedscrew-threaded 1101s :12 which extends from .wlithini'said lug to theinner face of the body Band isshown in line endwise @(see .Fig. 1,)lwithiabolt hole 13 formed in and extending laterally through the wall.A

I of the bath-tub.v .Thehole12 isengagedl'by 1 a 4 againstnthe conwex..side of said vplate. Said "the correspondingly threaded shank of a bolt'0, and i said s'hankeXtendS from within :saidlhole through the {hole 13in said wall and a suitable distance inwardly beyond .the

inner side of said wall and through a'h'ole 14 formed in a:concavo-convex plate D and f'has a head 15 arranged :at and :abuttingplate is circularand has an annular margianal flange 16 abutting againstthe inner side of the wallA of -the.bath-tub and is large enough .indimensionstoiextend from below saidoverfiow-opening to. and (above thehole 16 insaid Wall. The .plate D has its lower.v

"portion,"that is, "the portion-thereof below 'thebolt .'C,,providedwith slots 03 and (therefore ,foraminated, andsaid slots are V3.1";

. ranged. opposite "the overflow-opening 5, and

i hence the slotted orfforaminated ,plate D formsaa strainer. v fTheboltCnot only particin holding the strainer-forming ;plate D in place but isseated in and supported from the wall A of a the bath-tub and ,partici-,pa"tes in supporting the plate or body B 'fromsaid wall A.

The body "B is provided .above the lug '10. of the elbow or tubularmember 17 of said body with an outwardly and :upwardly projectingtubular member 17 which is tion-screw threaded internally and engaged bythe ad acent correspondingly externally screw-threaded outer end-portionof aspout- 'formingtubularmember E which extends [from within the elbowor tubular member 317 throughthehole '6 in the wall A of the bath-tuband into and through :an opening .18 formed in the upper portion of thes,tra'iner forming plate 1) and discharges intothejitub. Thesp'out "E istherefore detachably connected to theupper elbow or tubular member 17 ofthe body B and seated in and consequently supported from the end wall Aof the bath-tub and serves as a.

support-for the casting forming said body and its elbows or projections7 and 17 and "also forms a seat for the upperfportion of and therebyserves as a support for the strainer-forming plate D and PIGVBIItS ClIS-placement of the. .stralnereclrcumferent ally of the vbolt -C. The spoutE is in communication at its water-receivingend with the passageway 19formed internally-of the upperelbow or tubular member 17,.andsa1dpassageway oextends to the upper extremity of .said elbow ;or tubularmember of said body and is adapted to receive water 'to ibetsupplied tosaid spout.

The joint formed between the spout ,E

and the wall A of thebath-tub andtheijoint formed betweenthe l body l3and the tub are rendered fluid-tight in any approved manner.

By the construction herei1ib'e fore,:de-

scribed it will be observed that the hereinbefo-rehs'tated objects ofiny invention are successfully. attained.

What I claim is 1. "The ,combination, fv vith wall of a vvbathtub, saidwall having an overflowopening extending laterally through the wall, of.a combined supply and overflow fixture comprising two tubular el-b owswhich are integral with each other and arranged vertically at the outerside. .of said wall and the one above the, other, theuppe'r elbowforming a passageway adapted to receive water at the upper end of saidelbow and .to be placedin communication with the interior of the tub,and the lower elbow" forming a passageway arranged .to conduct off:water fromthe-vouter-end of "the aforesaid opening, and a tubularmember-threaded intov the lower and inner end-,portion of the upperelbow andcommunicating with the aforesaid passageway in said upper elbowand extending laterally through and vsupported from the aforesaid wall.

2. The combination, with a wall of a bathtub, which wall has anoverflow-opening extending laterally through the wall and enlarged :inwidth toward the top thereof,

said wallbeing provided above said opening with a circularLholeextending laterally through the wall, and a cast-metal bodyarranged at the-outer side of said wall and extending around said#circular vhole and around said overflow-opening and having a tubularmember which projects outwardly and downwardly and communicates withsaid overflow-opening and is enlarged in width toward thetop thereof,said body being :provided above said tubular member with anothertubularmeniber which projects out; I 130 M. M. BERGER.

PLUMBING FIXTURE FOR BATH TUBS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26. 1918.

Patented Jan. 7, 1919.

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